Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 63 86
Rank change year-on-year +38 +23 +34
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 154 61 41
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.69% 3.47% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.85% 3.72% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 42 32
10th Percentile £413 £415 £440
25th Percentile £500 £470 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -14.29% -3.88%
75th Percentile £687 £666 £680
90th Percentile £860 £738 £744
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £66.71 - £27.81

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Stakeholder Engagement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,962 1,638 1,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.19% 93.28% 90.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,335 1,037 1,404
10th Percentile £357 £363 £356
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £809
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 11
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.41 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement within the City of London region over the 6 months to 3 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
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London Bridge 0 1 £550 -
Stakeholder Engagement
Central London

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (5.19%) Confluence
1 8 (5.19%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.65%) Apache
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (7.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.90%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (3.90%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.95%) Aladdin
4 2 (1.30%) Loan IQ
4 2 (1.30%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (1.30%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.65%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.65%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.65%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.65%) SAP FI-AR
5 1 (0.65%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.65%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.65%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.65%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.65%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 33 (21.43%) Azure
2 22 (14.29%) AWS
3 17 (11.04%) Power Platform
4 11 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.84%) GCP
6 7 (4.55%) SaaS
7 5 (3.25%) Serverless
8 4 (2.60%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.60%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.60%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (1.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.95%) ChatGPT
9 3 (1.95%) Collibra
9 3 (1.95%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.95%) GitHub
9 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.60%) Firewall
2 3 (1.95%) DHCP
2 3 (1.95%) DNS
2 3 (1.95%) VPN
3 1 (0.65%) NAS
3 1 (0.65%) Network Security
3 1 (0.65%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.79%) Power BI
2 5 (3.25%) Metadata
3 3 (1.95%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.30%) Big Data
4 2 (1.30%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.30%) Data Vault
4 2 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.30%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.30%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.30%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.30%) Tableau
5 1 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.65%) Power Query
5 1 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (14.94%) JIRA
2 2 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.65%) GitLab
3 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 66 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 65 (42.21%) Finance
3 36 (23.38%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (14.29%) Banking
5 18 (11.69%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.49%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.25%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.60%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.60%) Front Office
8 4 (2.60%) Legal
9 3 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.95%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.30%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.30%) Military
10 2 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.65%) Marketing
11 1 (0.65%) Retail
11 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (25.97%) Analyst
2 28 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 22 (14.29%) Architect
4 20 (12.99%) Senior
5 17 (11.04%) Project Manager
6 15 (9.74%) Lead
7 8 (5.19%) Consultant
7 8 (5.19%) Data Analyst
8 7 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
8 7 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (4.55%) Senior Manager
8 7 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.90%) Banking Analyst
9 6 (3.90%) Security Architect
9 6 (3.90%) Security Manager
9 6 (3.90%) Senior Business Analyst
10 5 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 5 (3.25%) Enterprise Architect
10 5 (3.25%) Strategy Architect
10 5 (3.25%) Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.25%) LangChain
2 4 (2.60%) LangGraph
3 3 (1.95%) REST
4 2 (1.30%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.30%) Spring
4 2 (1.30%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.30%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.65%) .NET
5 1 (0.65%) JSON
5 1 (0.65%) Kafka
5 1 (0.65%) Middleware
5 1 (0.65%) Next.js
5 1 (0.65%) OpenID
5 1 (0.65%) Pandas
5 1 (0.65%) Playwright
5 1 (0.65%) PySpark
5 1 (0.65%) React
5 1 (0.65%) SAML
5 1 (0.65%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.44%) Product Ownership
2 12 (7.79%) Onboarding
3 11 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.90%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.60%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.60%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.95%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.30%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.30%) Derivative
8 2 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.30%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.30%) PMI
8 2 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.25%) Windows
2 4 (2.60%) Linux
3 3 (1.95%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.65%) Android
5 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (25.97%) Agile
2 33 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 28 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 28 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (16.88%) Migration
5 24 (15.58%) AI
5 24 (15.58%) Decision-Making
6 22 (14.29%) Analytics
6 22 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 19 (12.34%) DevOps
7 19 (12.34%) Project Management
8 18 (11.69%) Change Management
8 18 (11.69%) Project Delivery
8 18 (11.69%) Workshop Facilitation
9 15 (9.74%) Business Analysis
9 15 (9.74%) Requirements Gathering
9 15 (9.74%) Risk Management
10 14 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (8.44%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.14%) SQL
2 9 (5.84%) Python
3 7 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.25%) Java
5 3 (1.95%) Bicep
6 2 (1.30%) C#
6 2 (1.30%) Korn
6 2 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.65%) C++
7 1 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.65%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.65%) R
7 1 (0.65%) Scala
7 1 (0.65%) Swift
7 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (15.58%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.49%) Degree
4 6 (3.90%) PMP
5 5 (3.25%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.60%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.30%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.30%) CBAP
7 2 (1.30%) CEH
7 2 (1.30%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (1.30%) CISSP
7 2 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.65%) CFA
8 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.74%) Data Quality
1 15 (9.74%) QA
2 10 (6.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (5.84%) GDPR
4 6 (3.90%) NIST
4 6 (3.90%) PMO
5 5 (3.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.95%) NIST 800
6 3 (1.95%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.95%) SLA
7 2 (1.30%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.30%) GRC
7 2 (1.30%) ISO 20022
7 2 (1.30%) ISO 8583
7 2 (1.30%) NCSC
7 2 (1.30%) PSD2
7 2 (1.30%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.65%) IFRS
8 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 3 (1.95%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.65%) Docker
3 1 (0.65%) NFS
3 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.55%) Terraform
2 5 (3.25%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.65%) Ansible
4 1 (0.65%) EMC VPLEX
4 1 (0.65%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.65%) vMotion
Vendors
1 30 (19.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.84%) SAP
3 8 (5.19%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.55%) Databricks
5 6 (3.90%) Oracle
6 3 (1.95%) Charles River
6 3 (1.95%) CyberArk
6 3 (1.95%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.30%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.30%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.30%) Remedy
7 2 (1.30%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.30%) Workday
8 1 (0.65%) Adobe
8 1 (0.65%) Commvault
8 1 (0.65%) IBM
8 1 (0.65%) Informatica
8 1 (0.65%) Murex
8 1 (0.65%) Progress
8 1 (0.65%) VMware